Netflix Movies and Categories Finder: Social Issue Dramas
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Bye Bye London
In this satirical play, a wealthy Kuwaiti businessman travels to London for pleasure and encounters a host of eccentric characters.
Released: 2020-05-21
Runtime: 02:56:53
Netflix ID: 81236596
Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
The writings of Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore come to life in this collection of tales set in early-20th-century Bengal.
Released: 2016-06-01
Netflix ID: 80102160
Mehandi Circus
In the early 1990s, the love between a cassette shop owner and a traveling circus performer challenges caste barriers and disapproving parents.
Released: 2019-10-30
Runtime: 02:06:03
Netflix ID: 81177371
Merku Thodarchi Malai
In southern India, a laborer's dreams of owning a piece of land to farm is complicated by political corruption.
Released: 2019-01-01
Runtime: 01:54:30
Netflix ID: 81045060
Sarvam Thaala Mayam (Tamil Version)
An aspiring musician battles age-old caste divides to be able to learn the art of a classical instrument from a traditionalist, veteran percussionist.
Released: 2019-03-01
Runtime: 02:10:41
Netflix ID: 81083971
Sarvam Thaala Mayam (Telugu Version)
An aspiring musician battles age-old caste divides to be able to learn the art of a classical instrument from a traditionalist, veteran percussionist.
Released: 2019-04-08
Runtime: 02:10:41
Netflix ID: 81074135
Manusangada
When caste discrimination prevents a villager from giving his deceased father a rightful burial, he takes his fight for equality to court.
Released: 2019-02-01
Runtime: 01:33:21
Netflix ID: 81063743
Downton Abbey
Turn back the clock with the Crawley family and their staff as they prepare for a new era and a royal visit. But even perfect plans can go awry.
Released: 2020-07-17
Runtime: 02:01:42
Netflix ID: 81086533
One
A formidable Kerala chief minister’s party loyalties and personal principles are tested when a damning social media post sparks a heated power struggle.
Released: 2021-04-27
Runtime: 02:29:12
Netflix ID: 81327516
Mallesham
A self-trained engineer risks debt, love and reputation in his quest to improve the grueling work conditions of his mother and her weaving community.
Released: 2019-11-20
Runtime: 02:11:04
Netflix ID: 81217739
5 Minute
When a violent homophobic attack breaks out during a film screening, a bold journalist pursues justice for the LGBTQ community. Based on true events.
Released: 2021-03-01
Runtime: 01:46:11
Netflix ID: 81351808
Interrogation
In this fact-based drama, politically motivated cops in Andhra Pradesh set out to frame four Tamil laborers for a crime, torturing them to no avail.
Released: 2016-12-01
Runtime: 01:55:55
Netflix ID: 80149139
Little Feather
Upon turning 18 years old, a young woman leaves her orphanage, eager to join her boyfriend in Prague – but life in the real world is far from kind.
Released: 2020-05-24
Runtime: 01:32:39
Netflix ID: 81253957
Joker
In 1981 Gotham City, a struggling, mentally ill comic battles to be seen. His life takes a dark, gut-wrenching turn after he lashes back at attackers.
Released: 2020-08-08
Runtime: 02:01:45
Netflix ID: 81092221
Django Unchained
Accompanied by a German bounty hunter, a freed slave named Django travels across America to free his wife from a sadistic plantation owner.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:45:23
Netflix ID: 70230640
3 Idiots
While attending one of India's premier colleges, three miserable engineering students and best friends struggle to beat the school's draconian system.
Released: 2019-07-31
Runtime: 02:43:32
Netflix ID: 70121522
Bizim Aile
After a widower weds a widow, their blended family keeps everyone on their toes — but the trouble really starts when one son begins dating a rich girl.
Released: 2021-06-25
Runtime: 01:32:47
Netflix ID: 81462774
Braveheart
Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a local English lord's soldiers, which leads to an epic revolt.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:57:38
Netflix ID: 60000540
Joy
Close to paying off her debts, a Nigerian sex worker in Austria coaches a reluctant novice, and assesses the risks of taking a faster path to freedom.
Released: 2019-05-24
Runtime: 01:40:59
Netflix ID: 81046255
V for Vendetta
A masked freedom fighter known as 'V' takes up arms against a totalitarian government and finds an unlikely ally in a young woman.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:12:29
Netflix ID: 70039175
Swades: We, the People
An Americanized NASA scientist returns to his native India on a business trip and searches for the nanny who helped raise him.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 03:15:18
Netflix ID: 70019491
Guilty
When a teen and her family's hired servant turn up dead, inept police bungle the inquiry and wind up fingering a controversial prime suspect.
Released: 2016-06-01
Runtime: 02:07:19
Netflix ID: 80080618
Pink
A sexual assault victim, unjustly tried for the attempted murder of her attacker, is defended by a retired lawyer who challenges India's rape culture.
Released: 2017-01-20
Runtime: 02:10:04
Netflix ID: 80144448
Pinky Memsaab
When a guileless young woman becomes the domestic worker in a wealthy Dubai household, her bond with her posh employer changes both of their lives.
Released: 2019-04-01
Runtime: 02:04:25
Netflix ID: 81052280
Article 15
The grim realities of caste discrimination come to light as an entitled but upright city cop ventures into India’s heartland to investigate a murder.
Released: 2019-08-24
Runtime: 02:05:09
Netflix ID: 81154455
Green Book
Out of their elements, a refined pianist hires a street-smart driver to navigate a concert tour of the segregated Deep South.
Released: 2019-09-26
Runtime: 02:09:54
Netflix ID: 81013585
Queen & Slim
A first date takes a shocking turn when a traffic stop leads to an officer's death. The fugitive pair hits the road for a life-changing journey.
Released: 2020-12-06
Runtime: 02:12:21
Netflix ID: 80998887
The Oak
In the final days of Romania's Ceausescu regime, Nela sets off with her father's ashes in a coffee jar while the country descends into chaos.
Released: 2021-01-24
Runtime: 01:44:55
Netflix ID: 81215987
Asmaa
Constantly denied medical treatment, an HIV positive woman confronts societal stigma with unexpected courage. Inspired by true events.
Released: 2021-05-20
Runtime: 01:32:26
Netflix ID: 81424369
Wall
When approached by a rich Warsaw couple to help find the ruins of a church, a villager slowly steals the identity of the woman from the capital.
Released: 2021-09-24
Runtime: 01:46:41
Netflix ID: 81409149
Hotel Rwanda
Amid the holocaust of tribal fighting in Rwanda, one ordinary hotel manager musters the courage to save more than 1,000 refugees.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:01:50
Netflix ID: 70019224
Gran Torino
Curmudgeonly Korean War vet Walt confronts his Hmong immigrant neighbors when the family's son tries to steal his beloved 1972 Gran Torino.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:51:44
Netflix ID: 70105600
Oh My God
Mumbai shopkeeper Kanji Bhai files a lawsuit against God when an earthquake destroys his store and his insurance policy won't cover the damage.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:03:22
Netflix ID: 70258366
12 Years a Slave
A freeborn black man is abducted from New York and sold into slavery in this historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:14:08
Netflix ID: 70284282
Spotlight
A team of reporters and editors at the Boston Globe relentlessly investigate a shocking child molestation cover-up by the Catholic Church.
Released: 2016-06-22
Runtime: 02:08:38
Netflix ID: 80061341
Silenced
Amid a multitude of cover-ups, a caring teacher attempts to publicly expose faculty members who are molesting some hearing-impaired students.
Released: 2016-09-16
Runtime: 02:04:16
Netflix ID: 70241118
Kanavu Variyam
Despite doubts from fellow villagers who think he’s crazy, an ambitious dropout commits himself to solving a persistent local electricity crisis.
Released: 2017-06-15
Runtime: 01:43:46
Netflix ID: 80187684
Lagaan
In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to a high-stakes cricket match.
Released: 2017-12-08
Runtime: 03:43:33
Netflix ID: 60020906
Haider
Shahid Kapoor delivers a searing performance in this Bollywood take on Hamlet that unfolds amid Kashmiri culture and history.
Released: 2018-08-02
Runtime: 02:34:07
Netflix ID: 70303432
A Wednesday
After receiving an anonymous tip about a bomb, a police commissioner must negotiate with the terrorist, who demands the release of four militants.
Released: 2018-11-01
Runtime: 01:43:25
Netflix ID: 70107499
Uyare
An aspiring pilot fights for her future -- and justice -- after surviving an acid attack from her abusive boyfriend.
Released: 2019-08-13
Runtime: 01:58:38
Netflix ID: 81147274
More
In a coastal town, a teen is forced to confront hard truths and conflicting emotions amid a refugee crisis. Adapted from Hakan Günday’s novel.
Released: 2020-10-17
Runtime: 01:51:30
Netflix ID: 81293243
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Faced with few options, a widowed bar hostess entertaining businessmen in the cutthroat Ginza district tries desperately to better her circumstances.
Released: 2021-03-01
Runtime: 01:51:03
Netflix ID: 70063286
The Pursuit of Happyness
When Chris and his son are evicted, they face trying times as a desperate Chris accepts an unpaid internship at a stock brokerage firm.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:57:25
Netflix ID: 70044605
Blood Diamond
In war-ravaged Sierra Leone, a diamond smuggler offers to reunite a local fisherman with his family in exchange for a gigantic gem he discovered.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:23:32
Netflix ID: 70045850
Gandhi
Ben Kingsley stars as the diminutive attorney who stood up against British rule in India and became a global symbol of nonviolence and understanding.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 03:08:23
Netflix ID: 60010384
Dallas Buyers Club
Refusing to accept a death sentence from his doctor after being diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, Ron Woodroof smuggles medications from abroad.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:56:54
Netflix ID: 70275751
Doro no Kawa
A young boy growing up in a poor neighborhood of postwar Osaka makes a new friend and slowly becomes aware of the ways the adults around him survive.
Released: 2016-05-20
Runtime: 01:45:10
Netflix ID: 80103562
Manjhi: The Mountain Man
After his wife falls to her death crossing a mountain, a laborer spends decades carving a path through the mountain with nothing but simple tools.
Released: 2017-06-05
Runtime: 01:58:34
Netflix ID: 80165852
I Am Kalam
An intelligent boy born into poverty befriends the son of a once noble family and is inspired by the life of India's president to pursue an education.
Released: 2018-07-01
Runtime: 01:27:19
Netflix ID: 80236279
Pad Man
Despite public humiliation and resistance, an entrepreneur markets a hygienic, low-cost sanitary pad that even India's poorest women can afford.
Released: 2018-08-21
Runtime: 02:10:17
Netflix ID: 81016191
Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
In a politically charged India of the 1970s, three friends are transformed by personal ideologies, dangerous ambitions and matters of the heart.
Released: 2019-04-15
Runtime: 01:50:32
Netflix ID: 70040077
Shoplifters
Poor but close-knit, the Shibatas steal to survive. Rescuing a young girl from her family puts them on a collision course with the rest of society.
Released: 2019-06-01
Runtime: 02:01:00
Netflix ID: 81007900
Pihu
A two-year-old must fend for herself when her mother suddenly passes away while her father is gone for a conference, leaving her prone to danger.
Released: 2019-06-14
Runtime: 01:29:48
Netflix ID: 81113927
The Elementary School
Everyone wants to tame 10-year-old Eda, from his conservative father to his regimented new school teacher. But Eda is a free, and mischievous, spirit.
Released: 2019-12-19
Runtime: 01:40:44
Netflix ID: 81192010
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The plot of Romanian director Cristi Puiu's real-time drama is simple, following the travails of an ailing old man who waits for his illness to overtake him as a weary paramedic shuttles him between hospitals.
Released: 2020-03-04
Runtime: 02:34:02
Netflix ID: 70041148
The Girls
While on tour for a theater production about women and war, three actresses find parallels between their personal lives and the drama onstage.
Released: 2021-03-26
Runtime: 01:35:55
Netflix ID: 70052262
Laura's Wedding
When love blossoms between a young Italian woman and an African student, her family’s disapproval — and a secret — threatens to tear the lovers apart.
Released: 2021-04-21
Runtime: 01:35:00
Netflix ID: 81411143
Bezness as Usual
This documentary chronicles filmmaker Alex Pitstra's journey to discover the roots of his absent, casanova father and his own multicultural identity.
Released: 2021-09-17
Runtime: 01:32:31
Netflix ID: 80145592
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
In the last days of communism in Romania, a college student wants to end her unplanned pregnancy, but abortion is illegal under the Ceausescu regime.
Released: 2015-10-22
Runtime: 01:48:37
Netflix ID: 70071602
Do the Right Thing
Director Spike Lee chronicles trivial events that bring festering racial tensions to the surface on a sweltering day in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
Released: 2017-02-01
Runtime: 01:59:47
Netflix ID: 448860
Straight Outta Compton
In the mid-1980s, rap group N.W.A. bursts from the mean streets of Compton, revolutionizing hip-hop culture with its raw, provocative authenticity.
Released: 2017-03-20
Runtime: 02:26:38
Netflix ID: 80041415
For Here or to Go?
A software engineer must decide if he'd rather navigate America's frustrating visa renewal process or simply return to his home country of India.
Released: 2018-08-15
Runtime: 01:45:10
Netflix ID: 80176707
Awe
Disparate characters, including an aspiring time traveler, a phony chef, a drug-addicted waitress and several others, share a surprising connection.
Released: 2019-02-15
Runtime: 01:50:30
Netflix ID: 81052266
III Smoking Barrels
In three stories set in Northeast India, a child goes on the run, a young adult falls in with the wrong crowd and a desperate man turns to crime.
Released: 2019-05-31
Runtime: 02:07:35
Netflix ID: 81062606
A Lucky Man
Based on the life of Ernie “Lustig” Solomon, a gangster from just outside Cape Town in search of his identity and morality in a crime-ridden society.
Released: 2020-01-26
Runtime: 01:13:07
Netflix ID: 81219392
Let's Dance
Disillusioned with her humdrum routine, a married lawyer secretly enrolls in a dance school in this remake of the 1996 Japanese film “Shall We Dance?”
Released: 2020-05-17
Runtime: 01:55:46
Netflix ID: 81254498
The Pied Piper
A shady mayor hires a magical minstrel to lure away rodents with his flute but fails to pay him. Soon, the children of the town begin disappearing.
Released: 2020-06-03
Runtime: 01:30:27
Netflix ID: 70100329
Pride and Prejudice
In Jane Austen's tale of 19th-century England, Mrs. Bennet hopes to marry her daughters to prosperous gentlemen, including new arrival Mr. Darcy.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:06:36
Netflix ID: 70032594
Glory
This stirring drama follows the first African-Americans to serve in combat during the Civil War -- and shows how they helped turn the tide of the war.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:12
Netflix ID: 547335
Titanic
This cinematic spectacle -- winner of 11 Oscars -- follows society girl Rose and penniless artist Jack as they fall in love just as tragedy strikes.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 03:14:51
Netflix ID: 1181461
The Color Purple
A Southern woman's correspondence with her sister in Africa and friendship with a singer help her escape an abusive husband and a hardscrabble life.
Released: 2016-06-01
Runtime: 02:33:43
Netflix ID: 60026621
The Big Short
A group of wily opportunists make a fortune off of the U.S. economic crash by sniffing out the situation in advance and betting against the banks.
Released: 2016-06-17
Runtime: 02:10:16
Netflix ID: 80075560
The Butterfly's Dream
Forced to work in a coal mine during World War II, two young poets find some escape when they both fall for the same woman.
Released: 2016-09-27
Runtime: 01:58:20
Netflix ID: 70299745
Udta Punjab
Drug abuse and the darker side of Punjab rear their heads in the intense, interwoven tales of a cop, a doctor, a migrant worker and a rock star.
Released: 2017-01-01
Runtime: 02:25:56
Netflix ID: 80118002
Budhia Singh: Born to Run
Born into poverty and sold by his mother to a street vendor, a 5-year-old boy becomes India's first marathon-running champion despite his youth.
Released: 2017-05-01
Runtime: 01:35:22
Netflix ID: 80165849
Hidden Figures
Three brilliant African-American women overcome bigotry and sexism to become the brains behind the launch of the first American astronaut into space.
Released: 2017-09-01
Runtime: 02:06:44
Netflix ID: 80123775
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Two wealthy Californians consider themselves progressive until their daughter brings home a black fiancé amidst tense race relations in the 1960s.
Released: 2020-02-15
Runtime: 01:48:08
Netflix ID: 564122
Little Women
Determined to make her own way in the 1860s, a writer looks back at the tough yet tender times spent with her three spirited sisters and a close chum.
Released: 2020-07-10
Runtime: 02:14:52
Netflix ID: 81140933
Gangaajal
Posted to a small, crime-ridden town, a cop soon learns that cleaning up the system also means confronting the corruption among police and politicians.
Released: 2020-12-31
Runtime: 02:28:17
Netflix ID: 60032601
1987: When the Day Comes
The truth behind a cover-up of a student activist's death while in government custody sparks a movement for change. Inspired by true events.
Released: 2021-02-28
Runtime: 02:09:13
Netflix ID: 80231471
Nobody's Children
A rock quarry owner's affair with the daughter of one of his employees sets in motion a series of deep deceptions and long-lasting consequences.
Released: 2021-03-31
Runtime: 01:42:17
Netflix ID: 81411232
Tokyo Godfathers
After finding an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve, three homeless people go in search of the child's parents, meeting a host of oddballs along the way.
Released: 2021-04-02
Runtime: 01:31:46
Netflix ID: 60034521
Bonnie & Bonnie
After Albanian German teen Yara and tough orphan Kiki fall in love, they steal a car and go on the run to escape Yara's impending arranged marriage.
Released: 2021-09-15
Runtime: 01:27:49
Netflix ID: 81498299
Boyz n the Hood
A South Central Los Angeles high schooler struggles to please his father and to stay straight in a community polluted by drugs, violence and racism.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:52:12
Netflix ID: 328438
Training Day
A rookie cop tries to prove himself to a narcotics agent during a ride along, but soon he suspects that the veteran detective may be a thug himself.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:01
Netflix ID: 60021234
Changeling
When her kidnapped son is brought home, a mother suspects that the boy isn't her child, so the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
Released: 2015-07-16
Runtime: 02:21:41
Netflix ID: 70100378
I Am Sam
A grown man with the mental capacity of a 7-year-old raises his baby alone until child protective services deems him an unfit guardian.
Released: 2015-09-01
Runtime: 02:12:16
Netflix ID: 60021799
Cable Girls
In 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they manage romance, friendship and the modern workplace.
Released: 2017-04-28
Netflix ID: 80100929
The Breadwinner
A courageous 11-year-old Afghan girl disguises herself as a boy and takes on odd jobs to provide for her family when her father is arrested.
Released: 2018-02-21
Runtime: 01:33:24
Netflix ID: 80217121
Guru
Ambitious Gurukant Desai ignores his father's advice and leaves his village to find success in Turkey.
Released: 2018-03-01
Runtime: 02:34:43
Netflix ID: 70063017
The Official Story
As the military junta ruling Argentina fails, a history teacher begins to suspect that her worst fears about her country and her husband are true.
Released: 2018-09-01
Runtime: 01:55:20
Netflix ID: 80245563
Vaya
Three youths from rural South Africa set out for Johannesburg, where they're thrust into the seedy underbelly of the city and must fight to survive.
Released: 2018-11-01
Runtime: 01:46:09
Netflix ID: 80155792
Mumbai Meri Jaan
A moving portrayal of the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai, this Indian drama follows the interconnected stories of several strangers.
Released: 2018-11-01
Runtime: 02:14:45
Netflix ID: 70106268
ROMA
Director Alfonso Cuarón delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of domestic life and social hierarchy set against Mexico's political turmoil of the 1970s.
Released: 2018-12-14
Runtime: 02:15:16
Netflix ID: 80240715
Six Windows in the Desert
From a theatre play to the aftermath of a plane crash, this collection of shorts from Saudi filmmakers depicts the nuances of Saudi Arabian culture.
Released: 2020-02-27
Netflix ID: 81235969
Cairo Station
A Cairo newsstand vendor's fantasies morph into a dangerous fixation with a lemonade seller as a serial killer begins terrorizing the city.
Released: 2020-06-18
Runtime: 01:13:29
Netflix ID: 70124714
Ordinary People
Barely making a living as pickpockets, a teenage couple in Manila resort to desperate measures when their one-month-old child is kidnapped.
Released: 2020-06-26
Runtime: 01:47:17
Netflix ID: 80141777
Cops and Robbers
Animation and activism unite in this multimedia spoken-word response to police brutality and racial injustice.
Released: 2020-12-28
Runtime: 00:07:52
Netflix ID: 81354555
Floating Clouds
Returning to Japan after the war, a woman rekindles her affair with a man she met in French Indochina, but she remains unmoored in postwar society.
Released: 2021-03-01
Runtime: 02:03:31
Netflix ID: 81402076